Worry? Not me!

Matthew 6:34 ³

⁴Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Ahhhhh…..the calendar says SPRING!   Apparently no one notified Mother Nature…it’s snowing.  It’s just a ‘dusting’, but since I was out walking yesterday it feels like a step backward.  Yet, as I am thinking about the virus…yet again, I am reading the verse above, and I am feeling very positive. I was recently reminded of myself as a child learning how to swim.  My Mom was a great swimmer.  My Dad could barely float.  Obviously, it was up to Mom to teach my brother and myself to swim.  So, we were out at a lake.  No nice clean sanitized and flat bottom for us.  We had muddy, uneven, green floating stuff water.  You could not open your eyes under water if you wanted to, but if you dared to, you could not see!

I was the first to learn, after all, I was older.  Mom took me in her arms and started walking out into the water.  Deeper and deeper she goes.  She is up to her knees, then thighs, then I start feeling the cool water on my feet.  I’m laughing because it is tickling.  Then she goes out further, I feel the water on my thighs.  I’m holding a little tighter, but I’m still grinning.  She goes deeper.  She is chest deep…I am neck deep.  I start crying and telling her to get me out!  She goes back into shallow water until I calm down.  Then she gives me this speech;

‘I am your Mother.  I love you very much and I will not allow anything harmful to happen to you!  I am an expert swimmer, and I often earned medals for swimming, including, lifeguard.  I will not allow anything to happen to you’.  The fear erased from my 4-year-old frame.  I was ready to be transported again into the deep.  When she took me out there, I loosened my grip on her and relaxed.  She took me from under my arms and allowed me to move freely through the water as she twirled around.  It was freedom!  Finally, with her hands under my tummy she let me ‘swim’ using different strokes, while connected to her.  Ultimately, at one point she removed her hands without my knowledge.  I was swimming on my own! 

We know our Heavenly Father loves us so much more than even our earthly parents do.  We know He is all knowing, all powerful, and everywhere all the time.  Let’s let go of our fear, and enjoy the water! 

Would we ever learn how to ‘swim’ if we are always safely on shore?  Would we ever do anything new if we always played it safe? Ask yourself, what have I been too scared to do?  I say to you…if God told you to do it…He will get you through it!

Worry?   Not me!